"...the whole episode merely underscores how tenuous even the most basic democratic values really are when the ultimate determinant — in either direction — amounts to the self-interest of private corporations."

Elite liberals are determined to learn absolutely nothing www.lukewsavage.com/p/perhaps-de...

On a new episode of 🍎THE ORCHARDCAST🍎 @readtheorchard.org chard.org sits down with @lukewsavage.bsky.social to discuss Canada's prime minister in theory and practice in a conversation exploring The Carney Doctrine. www.readtheorchard.org/p/the-carney... 🔶

“This is why liberalism is the perfect ideology for capitalism. It demolishes those taboos that restrain expansion. Even the finest talk about internationalism opens markets for the powerful.” Technology & Empire - @lukewsavage.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lukewsav...

A new documentary about Leni Riefenstahl brings new archival evidence to bear against her longstanding denials of closeness to the Nazi regime. www.lukewsavage.com/p/fascinatin...

This was so much fun

"In the 21st century, centrist politics has supplied us with a never-ending stream of sentient press releases who are congenitally incapable of conveying even the slightest trace of authenticity or humanity. Sir Keir, somehow, leaves every one of them in the dust." 😂

Episode art for next week's podcast featuring @lukewsavage.bsky.social

In their fruitless quest to outflank the far-right, elite liberals on both sides of the Atlantic are increasingly indistinguishable from the very thing they claim to be a bulwark against www.lukewsavage.com/p/the-age-of...

Every PressProgress article carries this union bug because our newsroom is 100% unionized with secure, good-paying, full-time journalism jobs You can be a union job creator too by becoming a PressProgress member and supporting unionized journalism jobs: pressprogress.ca/become-a-mem...

“When someone says ‘the economy’ in a political debate or conversation, they almost invariably mean the one that currently exists around us, without any sense that the thing they’re referring to is a political institution at all.” - @lukewsavage.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lukewsav...

10,000 Air Canada flight attendants proved what Ed Broadbent argued for in 1969: democracy is incomplete until it reaches the workplace. @lukewsavage.bsky.social reflects on industrial democracy in commentary on Ed's landmark 1969 speech: broadbentinstitute.ca/research/industrial-democracy-action/

The Financial Times recommends my recent Substack piece on Matt Yglesias. What are you waiting for?

This was a win for all workers in Canada. #CdnPoli

I’m back in the Star today with a new piece on how striking Air Canada flight attendants successfully called Ottawa's bluff — and set a potentially significant precedent in industrial relations that may soon have important political implications as well: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

I regret to inform you all that I have written about pundits yet again www.lukewsavage.com/p/the-agony-...

I have a new piece out for the Toronto Star today on how the Carney Liberals ran on public investment and nation-building and have swung immediately to the right. Among other things, Canada may soon experience the most sweeping austerity program it's seen in decades. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Pure guesswork by me but this is the sort of headline I think a Buttigieg government would be getting after 4 months in power. bsky.app/profile/luke...

For The Baffler, I dive into Mark Carney's bestselling 2021 book Value(s) and the intensely orthodox view of political economy buried beneath its various layers of intellectual adornment.

“Another round of deregulation and pro-corporate policy-making, it hardly needs saying, won’t lower rents or shorten hospital wait times, just as gutting an already underfunded public sector will not magically spur growth or make our democratic institutions stronger.”

NEW EPISODE OF FRUITLESS! I was joined by @lukewsavage.bsky.social to talk about the state of Resistance liberalism under Trump's second administration. It was a really fun conversation, available wherever you get your podcasts.

"The Liberal practice of campaigning on the left then governing from the right is, by now, a hallowed Canadian tradition worthy of its own Heritage Minute." -- @lukewsavage.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney thinks we can still achieve a more ethical form of capitalism. As @lukewsavage.bsky.social points out, that’s nothing we haven’t heard a million times before.

Mark Carney won on a promise of strong but fair Canada. This is how he is betraying that vision, @lukewsavage.bsky.social writes. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com

I have a new piece out for the Toronto Star today on how the Carney Liberals ran on public investment and nation-building and have swung immediately to the right. Among other things, Canada may soon experience the most sweeping austerity program it's seen in decades. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

For The Baffler, I dive into Mark Carney's bestselling 2021 book Value(s) and the intensely orthodox view of political economy buried beneath its various layers of intellectual adornment.

Yo @lukewsavage.bsky.social you see this shit?

Lord help me, I wrote about influencers and podcasts again: www.lukewsavage.com/p/populist-n...

Lord help me, I wrote about influencers and podcasts again: www.lukewsavage.com/p/populist-n...

Brilliant analysis, as usual, from @lukewsavage.bsky.social on the rise of AI. “Behind the promises of progress lies a simple play: take what others built, offer nothing back, and call it innovation” thewalrus.ca/the-ai-revol...

SCENE: A Canadian pundit suddenly awakes from troubled dreams to the menacing pound of thunder. A single vein pulsates while two reddened eyes gaze into the impenetrable blackness of a dark Rosedale night. They are thinking once again about supply management.

I'm in @thewalrus today with a piece on AI, and the all-too familiar phenomenon of destruction sold to us as progress: thewalrus.ca/the-ai-revol...

I recently re-read Homage to Catalonia, and I'd forgotten how vividly George Orwell describes his brief experience of a classless society. Orwell found the "air of equality" so powerful it overshadowed his otherwise punishing experience at the front. www.lukewsavage.com/p/the-air-of...

I recently re-read Homage to Catalonia, and I'd forgotten how vividly George Orwell describes his brief experience of a classless society. Orwell found the "air of equality" so powerful it overshadowed his otherwise punishing experience at the front. www.lukewsavage.com/p/the-air-of...

I wrote about the AI revolution, and speculate that — contrary to our most dystopian predictions — its corrosive effects may ultimately be much more banal than either boosters or critics imagine. www.lukewsavage.com/p/uncreative...

New Substack piece on Wes Anderson and the limits of postmodern nostalgia: www.lukewsavage.com/p/the-world-...

New Substack piece on Wes Anderson and the limits of postmodern nostalgia: www.lukewsavage.com/p/the-world-...

“Even on their own terms, these people have repeatedly failed & no one should entrust them with power or leadership ever again.” The liberal crackup - @lukewsavage.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lukewsav...

NEW SUBSTACK PIECE: In the centrist imagination, we are perpetually One Weird Trick away from realizing a liberal capitalist utopia that never actually comes: www.lukewsavage.com/p/the-realpo...

Elon Musk said some dumb shit, was consequently forced to buy a platform he didn't want, got radicalized by the algorithms on his own damn website, then made the idiot AI tool he created adopt a Nazified meme ideology because the 21st century is actually that fucking stupid

The Mayor of Toronto has evidently joined Substack. In more important news, she has also subscribed to mine (and YOU can too...) lukewsavage.com

Mark Carney's government is set to make massive cuts to public programs and the federal civil service, while at the same time ramping up military spending to record levels. That segment where he talked to Mike Myers about Mr. Dressup sure was cute, though.

NEW SUBSTACK PIECE: In the centrist imagination, we are perpetually One Weird Trick away from realizing a liberal capitalist utopia that never actually comes: www.lukewsavage.com/p/the-realpo...

“A socialist mayor in the country’s largest city isn’t something its bipartisan elite will be prepared to contemplate, & the leaderships of both parties will be apoplectic at the prospect.” The Mamdani effect - @lukewsavage.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lukewsav...

ICYMI: @graceblakeley.substack.com in conversation with @lukewsavage.bsky.social on the failures of neoliberal capitalism and what the left must do if it is to win the working-class. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pjj... #canlab

On Orwell, socialism, and the right: www.lukewsavage.com/p/conservati...

I'm going to be in Halifax this weekend for the first time since 2009, and in Nova Scotia till early July. What should my gf and I do while we're out there?

Forget that depressing NYT editorial. Read this instead: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The slew of anti-ranked choice voting stuff we're suddenly seeing is the best indication yet that Zohran Mamdani has a real shot at winning. A corrupt political and media establishment that's been caught flat-footed is laying the groundwork to say it doesn't count.

A few thoughts on Zohran and the meaning of his remarkable campaign: www.lukewsavage.com/p/the-mamdan...